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  2. Monell v. Department of Social Services of the City of New York

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    Monell v. Department of Social Services, 436 U.S. 658 (1978), is an opinion given by the United States Supreme Court in which the Court overruled Monroe v. Pape by holding that a local government is a "person" subject to suit under Section 1983 of Title 42 of the United States Code: Civil action for deprivation of rights. [1]

  3. Supremacy Clause - Wikipedia

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    In Federalist No. 33, Alexander Hamilton writes about the Supremacy Clause that federal laws by definition must be supreme. If the laws do not function from that position, then they amount to nothing, noting that "A law, by the very meaning of the term, includes supremacy. It is a rule which those to whom it is prescribed are bound to observe.

  4. Supreme Court rules that government watchdog fired by Trump ...

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    The director of the White House Presidential Personnel Office fired Dellinger on February 7 in a brief email that cited none of those for-cause requirements, court records show.

  5. Huddleston v. United States - Wikipedia

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    United States, 485 U.S. 681 (1988), was a case in which the United States Supreme Court held that before admitting evidence of extrinsic acts under Rule 404(b) of the Federal Rules of Evidence, federal courts should assess the evidence's sufficiency under Federal Rule of Evidence 104(b). Under 104(b), "[w]hen the relevancy of evidence depends ...

  6. FACT CHECK: Video Claims To Show New Syrian Government ... - AOL

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    A video shared on X claims to show Syria’s new government fighting. Verdict: Misleading The video is from August 2024, before the new Syrian government was put into place. It appears the video ...

  7. Separation of powers under the United States Constitution

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    In this vein, the Supreme Court held in the 1998 case Clinton v. City of New York that Congress could not delegate a "line-item veto" to the President, by powers vested in the government by the Constitution. Where Congress does not make great and sweeping delegations of its authority, the Supreme Court has been less stringent.

  8. List of United States Supreme Court cases involving standing

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    Held that a New York resident (whose state had women's suffrage) lacked any particularized standing to challenge alleged state-level of the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution. This was a landmark case, prior to this, private citizens were permitted to litigate public rights. 9–0 Frothingham v. Mellon: 1923

  9. Constitution of the United States - Wikipedia

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    The Supreme Court holds discretionary jurisdiction, meaning that it does not have to hear every case that is brought to it. [123] To enforce judicial decisions, the Constitution grants federal courts both criminal contempt and civil contempt powers. Other implied powers include injunctive relief and the habeas corpus remedy.